Annie also did a video interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music's New Music Daily (which you can watch below), and she said in part:
St. Vincent: So the record is called Daddy's Home, there's a song on the record called "Daddy's Home," too, and it talks about my dad was put in prison for white collar crime and he just got out at the end of 2019. So I had a lot to write about, you know what I mean?
Zane Lowe: Is this common knowledge, Annie? I mean, have you spoken about this before? Or is this something that was like, "All right, cool. Now I can write about this and it is what it is, part of who I am"?
St. Vincent : Well, it's a funny thing, because the whole record, my whole record, Strange Mercy, really centers around it because it was right at the time when he got put away. And so I really kept it quiet because I wanted to protect my family and I wanted to just express myself only through the music and not necessarily get too autobiographical about it. But now that it's 10 years later and he's out and it ostensibly has a happy ending, which is, we're cool and he's okay and he's out. And I felt like it was okay to talk more explicitly about it. It had been there were dribbles about it in the press, in the Daily Mail, which was a bummer.
[...] Like I said, I had a lot to write about, but also I just went back to these records that my dad introduced me to as a kid. All the Stevie Wonder stuff from basically '71 to '76, that really, he's got a lot of great periods, but there's a really special Stevie Wonder period in there with Talking Book and Innervisions, and then all the Steely Dan sh-t from the early '70s. And just that sound of New York, when the dream of the '60s was over, the idealism was like, "Uh-oh," and we're into this nihilistic streak of the early '70s when things are … pretty, pretty bad. They're pretty bad. And that feels like, not to be too harsh because there's always a silver lining, but that feels like where we are now, which is every system of power is crumbling or has crumbled or has failed, and we're grappling with, "What the f-k do we do in this new world?" So it just worked out that way that those timelines I feel, where we were then and where we are now, feel like they're very simpatico.